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I went through the Nook STR and currently have a Kobo Glo.
I saw an ad on kijiji and managed to buy a kindle keyboard with the leather cover for $40 and its fucking amazing.
Physical buttons/ no gimmicky shit. I never used the backlight and i cant really notice the better e-ink screen on my kobo.
I just wanted a cheapo ereader to gift my sister and i am seriously considering keeping the Kindle and giving her my Kobo Glo.
>>8250861
only downside is that i need to convert all my epubs to mobi. Is there an easier way to bulk convert it? is the azw3 any better than the mobi format?
>>8250865
Duokan has native epub compatibility.
Why is this never discussed or mentioned here? In pretty much every "top x books of all time" lists it seems to always make the top 5. Is it actually good or just a meme?
>>8250836
It's pretty bad. Don't trust book rankings (with a couple exceptions), trust talented writers, esteemed critics, and genuine intellectuals. And no where in their vast corpus of literary critique do you see, say, Nabokov, Wilson, Sontag, Northrop Frye, etc. talk about this weak novel because it is not high art/literature.
>>8250836
The deadly combo of "woman writing about race issues" triggers all the edgelords, you should have seen the thread when she died
>>8250836
The book is pretty good, read it either way, it's not very long.
It's for the best if you form your own opinion.
ITT: recommend good but recently published books.
>>8250829
Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son
I thought it was good, maybe I'm a shitlicker, but I liked it.
My Struggle, Brief History of Seven Killings and... uh...
I think the Ferrante books were a hell of a lot more interesting than the Knausgård ones.
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What do you guys think of majoring in English Literature? I plan on working in education, so I see it as a viable option, in addition to the fact that I enjoy reading and analyzing literature.
To any English majors out there, do you regret studying literature? If not, what did you gain from it?
If you want to work in education I guess you cant go wrong.
I was English Major but decided for Marketing instead, seemed more conducive for what I wanted long-term
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>>8250740
Sounds insane, but the reason I want to major in English over business is because I feel teaching is a much more noble and fulfilling occupation than anything business could offer. I don't like exploiting people for profit either so I would prefer to teach; although, I am conscious there is such thing as just business.
It's honestly difficult deciding what I want to do for a living. I certainly don't want to be stuck in a cubicle for eight hours a day though.
If you realize that teaching kids sucks, you can also work in social services. Or vice versa.
Do you guys knows any good Spanish literature I can read?
Don Quixote
Best book ever
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>its a book
>Atlas Shrugged
>Atlas doesn't shrug
>The Divine Comedy
>It's not funny
>infinite jest
>ends
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Awful covers thread
>>8250639
>a special introduction from the game's executive producer
It wasn't even that good of a game
This is the edition I bought.
Where can I find a cool, old occult or demonology book that will impress my friends/summon Lucifer?
Here you go honey, have fun showing your powers off at show-and-tell next September.
http://www.esotericarchives.com/
The Vatican.
>>8250635
>all dat Bruno
ty anon, not an occultist as such but still find him fascinating
What does /lit/ think is better, The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged?
>inb4 they're both bad
Fuck off that's not the question
>>8250622
i already read the fountainhead, and if its the better of the two (which I believe it probably is), i dont want to read the other
>>8250622
Fountainhead was fantastic
Atlas Shrug was meh
>>8250622
Fountainhead
Whose got the smuggest face in bookland
This isn't even a competition. There is quite literally zero chance of anyone beating Rushdie.
>>8251517
/thread.
Give me a really good book/series with a bad ass WIZARD as the protag
>>8250590
Harry Potter and His Big Ol Stones
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
Its a series, that's the first book
It's a historical fiction story about King Arthur(1st person though hes not the narrator) that accurately depicts the British Isles in the early dark ages.
Merlin in this story is the most badass motherfucking wizard ive ever seen In fiction. He doesnt show up til halfway through the story and is built up mythically then he keeps dissapearing and showing up enigmatically, often as a dues ex but not always. His personality is just fantastically done, even though there is no actual magic.
>>8250592
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I got a second hand Dickinson collection and just realized it's the edited and truncated poems from before all the originals were dug up, should I bother with this one or just get a complete one?
>>8250514
It's good enough I'm sure, how heavily is it edited? I've never even heard the story of how the "originals" were dug up. I love the "narrow fellow" poem. Also, Emily is proof that even shut-ins can be great poets. This is inspiring for people like myself.
>>8250525
>Emily is proof that even shut-ins can be great poets. This is inspiring for people like myself.
Every time I go to bed after a night of writing without an agent... I know that feel. I know it hard.
>>8250514
I'm not an expert, but the existing poems got scrubbed of her unorthodox punctuation, and some of her more intense stuff didn't get published.
Only entries that are objectively correct, thanks
will dump
What's the deepest book you've ever read?
>>8250295
>twenty thousand leagues under the sea
kek
>>8250295
Cosmos by carl sagan.
>>8250337
Journey to the Center of the Earth is far more deep.
what is the literary equivalent of "wouldn't it be nice" by the beach boys ?
The electric kool aid acid test
>>8250240
inherent vice, no joke
the novel is structured according to pet sounds, look it up
>>8250240
Vineland by Pinecone.
Turns out it wasn't so nice after all.
